'Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words' is an absorbing experience. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Frank Zappa, the fiercely idiosyncratic musician and composer, hated being ...

Frank probably would have wanted it this way. Actually, the legendary musician, composer and all-around pot-stirrer Frank Zappa may not have wanted any documentary at all made about his life. Asked in ...

Frank Zappa, seen in "Eat That Question" Sony Pictures Classics Frank Zappa was a rock iconoclast with a caustic sense of humor and disdain for commercial compromise. That’s the big takeaway from “Eat ...

Although Frank Zappa is an integral part of the musical and cultural history of the 1960s and ’70s, he might have been born too soon. How would this master of the media have operated in the age of ...

Frank Zappa once said in an interview, “I don’t think anybody has ever seen the real Frank Zappa, because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody.” Zappa’s ...

In the days before the internet, there was no getting around the power of the media to shape the world’s understanding of public figures. Artists had a direct link to audiences through their work, but ...

Thorsten Schütte's new documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words follows the musician's career without framing it with Behind the Music–style retrospective interviews or narration of ...

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